It's Not Just Climate Change That Has Caused the California Wildfires

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As wildfires burn across California, destroying homes and lives in the process, we look for simple explanations. For most of us who don't live in the White House, climate change is an adequate one. For one thing, we can see and feel that the world is getting hotter: In the last decade, Earth has experienced four of the warmest years on record. In places where it used to snow, it doesn't. In places where it used to rain, it's stopped. Currently, Europe